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Swim Workouts Work!

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I gave it a go today, and I think I may be converted.

I used to swim a lot. When I say “used to”, I mean, like, over a decade ago. I’ve recently got back into it, and have been utterly ashamed of my lack of endurance. I’ve been slogging away, week after week, and if anything I thought I was getting worse.

My “workout” consisted of doing lengths, and taking breathers when I needed to (which was a lot). I tried to keep it to a pattern of 2×25 front crawl (or freestyle if you prefer) followed by 2×25 breast stroke, and alternating until I did a total of 60×25.

Occasionally I looked online at swim workouts, and thought, nah! Until today.

I couldn’t get my head around how you were supposed to be able to teach yourself; surely only teachers could teach you, right? Wrong. I picked up on a lot of mistakes I’ve been making, and I can now work to rectify them by concentrating on them. And even though I swam fewer lengths/laps, I still had a good workout and I think I even feel a little better and happier about my swim today than previous times.

I think another reason why I avoided swim workouts for so long was because I was afraid of making a fool of myself when using the floats, used to concentrate on technique. As always, you’ve just got take the words of the most successful ad campaign ever, and “Just Do It!” And I’m shy, so if I can do it anyone can.

To get started, I found this excellent little page which is especially good for people like me, who are beginners or only just getting back into it. It is a triathlon site, but the info is good and sound anyway. I didn’t even strictly use the workouts given, but it was an excellence basis for my own “made-up-on-the-spot” workout, and I’ll probably go back and use one of the workouts next time.

And that’s my first Health & Fitness post. Suppose I should add a new category now, too :-)


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